Rules / Frequently Asked Questions / Term of Service / other information

Reminder: Aryion.com is an Adults Only website. Any individuals under 18 years of age are not allowed to visit!

Some history about Aryion.com:

It all started around March 2005. One of the more well-known artists in the vore community, Strega, experienced some difficulty with Yahoo! groups, where all his works and his e-mail account were deleted without warning. Once I became aware of that fact, I decided to make a website which hosted all of Strega's art. Launched in April 2005, the address was https://strega.aryion.com, called Strega's Portal.

Strega's Portal was quite a success. After a while, a few other artists expressed an interest in having something similar. Even though all of them combined still didn't have half the collection Strega did at that time, so I made another portal. At first, it was simply called Artist's Portal at artists.aryion.com. However, after we received a few story submissions, and after we got a very nice banner created by Dorogato, the name became "Eka's Portal".

Around October 2005, the site started having numerous downtimes due to the increase in traffic. Strega and I agreed to merge the two sites together. Using Eka's Portal as the name, we officially reopened the site under the domain name "//aryion.com" on November 1st, 2005.

The purpose of the site is still making a place for artists, but in addition we included authors and other types of contributions. Over time, the site has changed and added many things: four different hosting companies, different software, Interactive Stories area, Vore Wiki section and various other projects. Around the time Yumchat started having difficulty, we added our own chat as a semi-official replacement. We recently added an Upload Forum and Map to fit the growing needs of this community. A bit after, we added a blog system as well.

When the site first started, it had nothing but a gallery, but we realized drawing is not the only way people enjoy vore and certainly not the only thing valuable this community has to offer. So we have expanded our range of services. This doesn't mean we have changed our core mission, simply that we believe that by doing more and different things we can enhance our original mission. On top of making a site for artists, we will try to make the best vore site possible for anyone.

Timeline:

Thu Nov 09, 2006. Digit, the owner of http://www.vorarephile.com and the creator of biggulp, have discontinued one of the oldest vore sites on the entire internet. With permission from Digit, Aryion.com will try to continues from where he left off and continues the development of this community. It will be archived long as this site lives.

Sat Mar 15, 2008. Leshana released the third gallery software, and our first custom gallery software, code name "G3" and begins public usage.

Sun Jan 12, 2009. We moved to our fifth server and started using drupal and phpbb3 as our portal software, replacing the very aged PHP-Nuke content management system.

Fir Mar 13, 2010. Leshana released the first custom in-house chat software, code name "C3" and begins public usage.

Mon July 11, 2011. Leshana released the second version of our gallery software "G4" and begins public usage.

Site rules:

Any attempt to connect real life vore are disallowed and heavily enforced! Check Here for more info

2) This page only allows adult over 18 of age to visit!

Aryion.com is an Adults Only website. Any individuals under 18 years of age are not allowed to visit! If you are aware of any other user under the age of 18, you must inform the site operators.

3) Only one account per person.

There is current only one account type ( Click here to sign up ) which give you posting right for the forum, personalized user setting, ability to start a gallery (after requesting for one), adding yourself to the map, and a few other user functions.

Chat room account is separated and can be made per character. Check chat specific rules for more info.

4) Be respectful of others at all times.

The purpose of the site is to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas, sharing material, form discussion, and other general entertainment. Occasionally, there will be conflicts that arise when people voice opinions. Be courteous when disagreeing with others. It is possible to disagree without being insulting.

5) Ranting is prohibited

A rant is a post which is long-winded, redundant and filled with angry, non-constructive comments. A free exchange of ideas is essential to building a strong sense of community and helpful in the development of the game, but rants are disruptive and incite flaming and trolling. Please post your thoughts in a concise, clear manner and avoid going off on rambling tangents. If you must rant, please limit them only to your blog.

6) Personal attacks are prohibited.

Commonly known as flaming, personal attacks are posts which are designed to personally berate or insult another. Text of this nature is not beneficial to the community spirit and will not be tolerated. All users are cautioned to avoid allowing an "in character" dispute become an "out of character" personal attack. The web site is designed for role-playing and/or portraying a role and it is sometimes easy for tempers to flare when the lines between the virtual world and the real world are crossed. Keep in character disputes in private, please, unless it is clearly a mutual, in character exchange.

7) Trolling is prohibited.

Trolling is the word used to describe a post that is deliberately designed for the purpose of angering and insulting the members of the community. Posts of this nature are disruptive and do not convey a friendly attitude.

8) No posting of personal information

Please respect the privacy of other users and do not give out information such as phone numbers, addresses, instant messaging accounts or e-mail address. Private conversations are only allowed to be posted publicly if mutually agreed by all parties involved in such conversation.

9) Private communication between the moderators and administrators of the site and the users is not to be made public on this site or by any other venue.

You are not permitted to publicize or discuss any private correspondence (including escalation) received from any of the aforementioned.

10) Warnings and bans are not to be discussed on the site.

Such matters shall remain private between the administrators and moderators, and the user. Questions or comments concerning warnings and bans will be conveyed through e-mail or private messaging. Likewise, discussions regarding moderator actions are not permitted on the forum or the chat.

11) Spamming, bumping, and pyramid quoting are prohibited.

Spam is considered to be repetitive posting of the same topic or text or nonsensical posts that have no substance and are often designed to annoy other forum users. Bumping posts more frequently than once per week per thread in order to keep them near the top of the list is also prohibited. Pyramid quoting is a response to a forum thread which contains the quotes of four or more previous posters. Posts of this nature are not conducive to community spirit and are unwelcome.

12) Redundant threads will be deleted.

As a courtesy to others before beginning a new thread, please look to see if an active thread on that topic has already been established. If so, place your comments there instead. Multiple threads on the same subject clutter up the forum needlessly and many good ideas may be lost. Keep discussions about one topic to one thread only.

13) Impersonating another user, moderator and administrator are strictly prohibited.

You are expressly forbidden from impersonating anyone else, including those named above, on the forum or in the chat, even in jest. This may be grounds for a permanent ban.

14) All post and submission must be about or related to vore. ( definition here )

Posts about other material, products or services not related to vore are not permitted except in the following off-topic areas: The "Out of chat world" room and "Vore room" in chat, the "Rest of the world" Forum. Specific "Non-vore" folder in a personal gallery and Personal blog.

15) You may not post advertisements.

Posts discussing or linking to any for-profit organization must request permission before any posting, even if related to vore. Personal donation, commission related to vore are allowed in a designated area like a personal blog and artist forum.

Seeking Roleplay advertisement limited to the seeking roleplay forum. Blogs, gallery, or other area are all considered inappropriate for advertising roleplay seeking.

16) Post constructively.

Negative, but constructive feedback can be very useful, provided that it is presented in a civil, factual manner. Tell us what you don't like and why and how you feel it could be improved. Posts that are insulting and rude may be deleted, no matter how valid the ideas behind them may be.

17) Disputes which cannot be resolved between forum users and moderators may be arbitrated by the administrators.

To discuss any problems or concerns that you were unable to resolve, for example, being banned, find copyright issue or whatever else that you can't find someone to talk to, feel free to send a feedbackor e-mail admin@aryion.com directly. All feedback and email will be read and responded by an administrator.

18) You may not use any insecure, public or shared internet connection to access any portion of this site.

Due to the adult nature of this site, you are not allowed to access this site in public, or with any shared or insecure internet connection where your account info or any data can be compromised.

Forum Specific Rules:

Make sure you check each individual forums of other specific rules and regulations!

Frequently asked Question (FAQ):

Q: What is Vore / Vorarephile?

A: Basically, Vore is a sexual fantasy involving consumption of others in various ways. Check our Vore Wiki or our Forum for more information.

Q: Is it like cannibalism?

A: You didn't check the links I just gave you, did you? Anyway, the answer is absolutely NOT. I can understand where someone can make the connection, but to say vore is like cannibalism is like saying you eat vegetables because you like the color green. In the vast majority cases, it is completely irrelevant. Vore and cannibalism have no true connection whatsoever, the only thing similar is that they both involve eating. Yes, there are cases where works can be considered cannibal, but it definitely is not the focus of this site. Anything displayed on this site are strictly fantasy.

Q: Why are you doing this?

A: To let "vore" be recognized and understood by as many people as possible, besides serving the community.

Q: Who runs this site?

A: Currently, mostly me, Eka, and my partner Leshana!

Arcturus - Helped me on troubleshooting some of my coding on this website, and provided hosting for our site for four months until we finally got our own dedicated server.

boredpenguin - Thanks for the help with some miscellaneous coding

Mouse, Inferno, dW- Thanks for the editing help!

eXedit - He has been a great help to the site and the chatrooms in the past. Many advanced features received lots of help from him. I hope everyone here will appreciate his work!

Leshana - She has made a lot of improvements to the chat room the gallery, and pretty much everywhere else in the site that would not have been possible at all without her. Everyone here should appreciate her help at least as much as mine!

Varenx - He spent some time making the chat's spellchecker, as well as catching a few security issue for us to fix.

Callisto - He helped us with some coding including the prototype of the private chat log viewer and caching switch for the gallery

Q: I am an artist/writer/contributor and I want to put something on your site, how do I do that?

A: Any content contributors will need an account for this portal. If you don't have one, please sign up!

If you are an artist or writer and want your album in our gallery for writing and or drawing, please send Eka a private message including one example or more of your completed vore related work for reference. If it is a story, make sure to send the entire, completed story.

Guidelines for submission: If any work is not your own creation, you must add in the caption/comment who the original creator is. Otherwise, I will treat it as a copyright violation, and I might have to remove your album because it is impossible for us to monitor artist/authors and keep track of thousands of submissions every month. You must have permission before you upload someone else's work!

Guidelines for non-vore material: Please create a sub-album named "Non-vore" and put anything that is not related to vore in there, with no subfolders under the album called "non-vore" please. The focus of this site is still by-and-large vore. Also, please keep at least 50%+ of your work vore related.

Other guidelines: Currently we do not accept any Photo edit, non-original sprite edit, and non-original 3d models rendering image submission into our gallery until further notices. Please keep those in the forum. Originally made sprite and original 3dmodels with minor details (such as background or other minor objects) not originally created, are still acceptable

If you have a unique project idea, for example, a flash card project, or a media database, also please send Eka a private message.

If you have created any vore related material you made and want to share and receive comments but do not wish to have a gallery, please use our Forum dedicated for "Work to be shared!".

If you found any vore material to share, please feel free to upload it here. Make sure to follows forum rule!

If you have other ideas or suggestions about adding any content to this site related to vore, please feel free to let me know as well. I'm always looking for people to help add more to this site!

This site is entirely non-profit, and do not support commercial advertisement. If you are looking for an arrangement with advertisement opportunity for commercial purpose, Please talk to us directly.

As always, your contributions will be greatly appreciated. We aim to make the process of contributing to this site as painless as possible. You do not need to know any coding at all to upload your drawings or start your project. Everything on this site is point and click or using WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) interface like Microsoft word. Don't take my word for it, try editing the Vore Wiki for a demonstration.

Q: I want to donate your site!

A: You can make donations to our site if you wish to help our site stay financially healthy. Running a service like this is costly and every bit of your help counts!
All donations received will be used on the website only. All transactions are completely anonymous unless you specify your wish to send us your information within the donation process. If you have a name that you want to be listed as, please send us your information after you make the donation.

Q: Beyond these, how else can I help?

A: Make constructive and useful comments on the artist's, writer's, or other contributor's work. They will be greatly appreciated!

Q: How do I link to your site?

A: Feel free to use our banner here and link to our front page so everyone will see the age warning. our front page address is //aryion.com

Q: Can you link to my vore site?

A: Absolutely! Just go here to add your link to our weblink! If it is not vore, we will still link it, but we might have to add a non-vore category for you.

Following is the annoying but necessary part of any website's effort to protect themselves, which probably will never be used offensively. If you have any concern regarding the following disclaimer, feel free to give us feedback.

Term of Service

Administration:
You may submit content to aryion.com, however final determination of posted material will remain at the sole discretion of the site administrator.
The user assumes all responsibility and risk for the use of this web site and the Internet generally. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall anyone involved in creating or maintaining this web site be liable for any DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL or CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, or LOST PROFITS that result from the use or inability to use this web site and/or any other web sites which are linked to this site. No warranties, either express or implied, are hereby given. All of this site is supplied as is, without guarantee. Nor shall they be liable for any such damages including, but not limited to, reliance by a member or visitor on any information obtained via the web site; or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, viruses, errors, defects, or any failure of performance, communications failure, theft, destruction, unauthorized access, frustration, disgust, system abends, disk head-crashes, general malfeasance, floods, fires, shark attack, nerve gas, locust infestation, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, local electromagnetic disruptions, hydraulic brake system failure, invasion, hashing collisions, normal wear and tear of friction surfaces, comic radiation, inadvertent destruction of sensitive electronic components, windstorms, the Riders of Nazgul, infuriated chickens, malfunctioning mechanical or electrical sexual devices, premature activation of the distant early warning system, peasant uprisings, halitosis, artillery bombardment, explosions, cave-ins, and/or frogs falling from the sky.
The contents of our sites are protected by copyright and trademark laws, and are the property of their owners. Unless we say otherwise, you may access the materials located within the Sites only for your personal use. This means you may download one copy of any posted materials on a single computer for personal, noncommercial home use only, so long as you neither change nor delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice. When you download copyrighted material you do not obtain any ownership rights in that material. You may not modify, copy, publish, display, transmit, adapt or in any way exploit the content of the Sites. Only if you obtain prior written consent from us -- and from all other entities with an interest in the relevant intellectual property -- may you publish, display or commercially exploit any material from the Sites. To seek our permission, simply send an email to admin@aryion.com ( if permission is granted by us and by all other entities with an interest in the relevant intellectual property, you may not change or delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice.
You must abide by all additional copyright notices or other restrictions contained in any of the Sites.

Off-Site Links

These terms and conditions apply only to the Sites, and not to the sites of any other companies or organizations, including those to which any of the Sites may link. We are not responsible for the availability of any other site to which any of the Sites link to. We do not endorse or take responsibility for the contents, advertising, products or other materials made available through any other site. Under no circumstances will we be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage that is caused or alleged to have been caused to you in connection with your use of, or reliance on, any content, goods or services available on any other site. You should direct any concerns to that other site's administrator or webmaster.
Other sites may link to any of our Sites only with designated graphic images or through a plain-text link. Permission must be granted by us for any other type of link to the Sites. To seek our permission, simply send an email to admin@aryion.com. We reserve the right, however, to rescind any permission granted by us to link through a plain-text link or any other type of link, and to require termination of any such link to any of our Sites, at our discretion, at any time.

Submissions

We welcome your comments about any of the Sites. However, unless a site has set up a specific submissions policy, we will not review or consider any unsolicited creative submissions. We hope you will understand that this policy is intended to avoid the possibility of future misunderstandings in the event that projects developed by our staff might seem to others to be similar to their own creative work. Accordingly, we must ask that you not send us any original creative ideas, suggestions or materials. If, despite our request, you send us any creative idea, suggestion or material ("Submission"), it shall become our property. No Submission will be subject to any obligation of confidence by us, and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submission. We will exclusively own all known or later-existing rights to the Submission worldwide, and will be entitled to the unrestricted use of the Submission for any purpose, and without compensation to the provider of the Submission.

Forums and Gallery

A "forum" means any message board, or other interactive service appearing on the site and includes both public boards and private folders. A "Gallery" means the archive collection of materials uploaded by dedicated album owner. You must register in accordance with instructions that you will find on the Sites in order to contribute to any forum. You may not post on any forum and gallery, or send to any other forum and gallery user or our staff, any material that is abusive, vulgar, threatening, harassing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, invades a person's privacy, violates any intellectual or other property rights, or that would otherwise violate any law. You may not use any forum in a commercial manner. You may not post material that solicits funds, or that advertises or solicits goods or services. You may not post material known to be false. You may not post or transmit any information, software or other material that contains a virus or other harmful component. Language are limited to English unless otherwise noted.
We are not responsible for material appearing in any forum and gallery on aryion.com, except for material signed by an identified representative. We are not responsible for screening material posted by users for libel, obscenity, invasion of privacy, copyright or trademark infringement, accuracy, or for any other reason. We retain, however, the right to modify or remove messages or other material that we, in our sole discretion, consider infringing, offensive, abusive, defamatory, obscene, stale, or otherwise unacceptable. We also reserve the right to edit materials for any other reason. Whether or not we modify or remove such material, users remain solely responsible for the content of their messages or postings.
By posting on the Sites, you grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) us and/or relevant affiliated companies the worldwide, perpetual, nonexclusive right to use your questions, comments, and postings, in their original or edited form, in any medium now known or later developed. You also warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content you have posted and that the public posting and use of such content by us will not infringe the rights of any third party. Additionally, you warrant that any "moral rights" in posted materials have been waived.
You are not entitled to any compensation for any materials you may post on the Site.
We may, at our discretion, suspend or terminate the registration of any forum user who violates any of these terms and conditions of use, any of the member guidelines or for any other behavior that we in our discretion believe is inappropriate.

Organization

All organizations, whether for-profit or non-profit, must request permission before performing any action on behalf of the organization on this site.

Age restriction

No one under the age of 18 is allowed in any portion of aryion.com, that includes all domain and subdomain under aryion.com. Anyone who has broken this rule before results in a ban from this site. Anyone who has visited any age-restricted site on the internet while being underage to that site at any point of their life time may be disallowed from all portion of Aryion.com. Anyone who allowed underage user to visit the site due to their action or inaction, maybe disallowed from all portion of Aryion.com

Disclaimers of Liability

We do not endorse, warrant or guarantee any products or services offered on the Site. We are not a party to and do not monitor, any transaction between users and third-party providers of products or services.

User agrees that the use of this site's services is entirely at User's own risk. Our services are provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, constructive, or statutory, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose.

All files are copyright to their respective owners. This site directs full legal responsibility of files to their respective users. All other content copyright Eka's portal. Eka's portal is not responsible for the content any uploaded files, nor is it in affiliation with any entities that may be represented in the uploaded files.

We also reserve the right to take anyone or anything seriously.

Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE, WILL WE OR ANY OF OUR LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, MISUSE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE MATERIALS ON THE SITES, OR ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THE SITES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU BY US OR ANY OF OUR LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO US, IF ANY, FOR ACCESS TO THE SITE.